grateful - Story 55137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s office felt small, the air thick with unspoken judgment. Emily stared at the screen, the highlighted passages of her essay glaring back at her. Her heart pounded in her chest, a frantic drumbeat against her ribs. She was so scared, and so hurt.

She focused on her teacher, Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones had been so supportive, always encouraging her to push herself, even when she doubted her abilities. His belief in her had been a constant source of strength. She recalled the long conversations they'd had, his patience, and the way he had helped her explore her ideas.

She took a deep breath, remembering his advice and his kindness.

Emotion: grateful

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.77 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.43

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion grateful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 grateful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the grateful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the grateful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.571
`de`	0.562
`B`	0.546
`மகி`	0.517
`happy`	0.493

Suppressed:

`[]`	-0.582
`😖`	-0.519
`worse`	-0.509
`😫`	-0.498
`😣`	-0.494